What are these elongated rectangles in the water area?

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• PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Unrelated, but I love that you discovered this image and worked so hard to figure out the answer to your question. I had also never heard of the Top View community, and it’s so interesting - subscribed! Thanks, OP :)

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  • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I also subscribed!

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• evening_push579@feddit.nu ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Salt harvesting?

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  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It could be yeah! I Just can’t find any info on it online

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  • onion@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wouldn’t they have to be inverted? Raised walls to partition and ponds in between

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• TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think I may have found the answer? After researching a little bit it looks like Abu al Abyad, the island above the elongated rectangles is actually an international military testing facility. This article , and a couple similar to it alluded that the area is for testing naval equipment and amphibious landings.

  There are similar man made pools of salt water in desert condition that the US utilizes for radar testing at the China Lake research facility in California.

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• poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Could also be algae farming, but it looks Mord Mike salterns.

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• englislanguage@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe the name (arabic: الخضيرة, English Al Khidayrah) helps.

  See www.openstreetmap.org/node/9971473918#map=12/24.1…

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  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thanks!

    I mostly just found other posts (on reddit) about the same place, but no definite answer. Most likely it sounds like a mangrove plantation though

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• SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They’re water farms, they just happen to be rectangular in shape thanks to the Seigneurial system

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  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But this is salt water. How can they grow crops in that?

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    • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Flood the plane, let the water evaporate, and you’ve got yourself some salt buddy

      Now if only we could do the same with pepper, we’d be set

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• Tronn4@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Water streets.

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